Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy (Beryl and XGL)
Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy (Beryl and XGL)
Anyone know much about this? I am thinking of putting it on my
Athlon Xp 2200+ system with 1gig of ddr 333 ram and a radeon 9600. I was wondering if it come already with ubuntu 6.10 and what the requirements were to run it. Also How to go about enabling it, but I saw some walkthroughs for it on ATI cards so I think I can handle that part. Also is there a difference running it with ati vs nvidia cards? and if so why?
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Athlon Xp 2200+ system with 1gig of ddr 333 ram and a radeon 9600. I was wondering if it come already with ubuntu 6.10 and what the requirements were to run it. Also How to go about enabling it, but I saw some walkthroughs for it on ATI cards so I think I can handle that part. Also is there a difference running it with ati vs nvidia cards? and if so why?
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I'm no expert, but I have been looking at in stalling this on my system. From all I have read, ati drivers just seem to have multiple difficulties in playing will with 3d stuff like beryl. You might look in to a script call envy in helping install the ati drivers. As I understand it there many good how-to-s on the beryl site.
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I've got it installed on my PC at work and have played with it a bit. I'm on to Feisty now and using an NVIDIA card. Works well, fun to play with the features... but I've noticed that it doesn't really work if you run any java applications.... not many do at home, but its all I do at work, so unfortunately I don't have much time to use it for extended periods of time.
Neat utility... their making it better all the time.
I'll try posting a screen shot of it here in a bit...
Neat utility... their making it better all the time.
I'll try posting a screen shot of it here in a bit...
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sweet illuminati, i'd love to see some screen shots i'm working on getting linux set up as my secondary operating system not the main as it kind of set itself after I installed it (its my first full linux experiance when not just playing with someone elses already tweaked install.) I also can't get the ati drivers to install so i've got a friend coming over to help me whos done it on ubuntu/red hat/suse/mandrake hes got some experiance I don't lol. And i'm not a 100% sure what the kiba dock is either.
ok didn't get it to work so far but I think its somethign to do with the driver for my card or something. do you need to install apis on linux like windows? I doubt it but thought i'd check. can't get any effects of rotation of 3d desktop. I followed one of those walkthroughs I posted to the T and it installed everything and had me restart etc. now I can access the beryl settings but nothing new. (its a 9600 but the writer did it on an xt version of the 9600)
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=VekgyKQoTeMIlluminati wrote:what's the kiba-dock?Dragon_Cooler wrote:Have any of yall got the kiba-dock to work??? If so how???
Got it working on the x1600xt and the 4000+ upstairs works like a charm had to change the sesion to xgl and bam it worked well after turning off the reload default window manager when beryl crashes because it seems that it won't let you switch to it initially then you can reclick it and works great. now to get it working on the eh 9600 downstairs. A question though is do you need to have the swap file? because I forgot to set one and could that be why I can't get back into windows? or don't see an option for that?
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ya, like dicecca said... Feisty Fawn is the code name for Ubuntu 7.04. Edgy Eft is the code name for Ubuntu 6.10.
I just upgraded from Edgy a few weeks ago... Feisty is still under development and I get updates like more than once a day... and I'm also at a higher risk of bugs since it is still constantly getting updated... I just like the challenge and seeing how a bunch of little things change. Feisty is not recommended for the typical user until it is officially released.
The fire and water effects can be turned on and off through the beryl settings manager. There are a TON of effects available with beryl... and you can tweak those effects a bunch of different ways as well!
I just upgraded from Edgy a few weeks ago... Feisty is still under development and I get updates like more than once a day... and I'm also at a higher risk of bugs since it is still constantly getting updated... I just like the challenge and seeing how a bunch of little things change. Feisty is not recommended for the typical user until it is officially released.
The fire and water effects can be turned on and off through the beryl settings manager. There are a TON of effects available with beryl... and you can tweak those effects a bunch of different ways as well!